THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE
O Western Newspaper Union
AMERICA'S APPEAL TO PATRIOTS WAS NOT IN VAIN
"The only way to stay the onrush of blood and desolation is to prove conclusively that
the Prussian masters of Germany do not possess the physical might to impose their will on
the human race."
"Verily the Bible is our book. It was
given and assigned to us, and in it we
read the original text of our destiny,
which proclaims to mankind salvation or
disaster, as we will it."
"As we will it!" There, in four words,
is the whole story of the Prussian doc
trine of the "superman," of a "place in the
sun," of "world dominion." What a com-
bination of sacrilege and vanity to assume
that the Almighty would confer on a
people such as the Prussians have shown
themselves to be divine powers on earth!
These are enough, though many more
might be given, to show the monstrous
ideas which have for a generation been
poured into the receptive minds of a
stolid, stubborn people, unhabituated to
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